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Medieval Music Database

Worcester, Counties of Hereford and Worcester Record Office 705/349 BA 5117/1 (xiv)

This 16thC rental and household inventory of the manor of Aylesbury has a sheet of 14thC music as its rear cover. A troped Gloria and a setting of the Marian tract `Gaude Maria virgo', both incomplete, are preserved.

INVENTORIES


  1. The Worcester Fragments: A Catalogue Raisonné and Transcription, edited by Luther Dittmer, American Institute of Musicology, 1957. Musicological Studies and Documents 2.

  2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. 'Worcester, County of Hereford and Worcester Record Office, 705:349 BA 5117/1 (XIV)' [in] `New sources of English thirteenth- and four-teenth century polyphony', compiled with M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982): 356-358.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, Gaude Maria virgo... archangelis credidisti (cantilena))

  2. fol. 1v, Spiritus concordie spiraculum ())


LITERATURE

The Worcester Fragments: A Catalogue Raisonné and Transcription.


Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003